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    produced and worked with a number of definitions of Puritanism, in an unresolved debate on the nature of the Puritan movement of the 16th and 17th century. There...
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    group but to many. Historians still debate a precise definition of Puritanism. Originally, Puritan was a pejorative term characterizing certain Protestant...
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    history of the Puritans can be traced back to the first Vestments Controversy in the reign of Edward VI, the formation of an identifiable Puritan movement...
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    unorthodox religious opinions. Puritans were also active in New Hampshire before it became a crown colony in 1691. Puritanism as a powerful force weakened...
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    War was a "Puritan Revolution" that challenged the repressive Stuart Church and prepared the way for religious toleration. Thus, Puritanism was seen as...
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    John (2008), "The Growth of English Puritanism", in Coffey, John; Lim, Paul C. H. (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Puritanism, Cambridge Companions to...
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    Puritanism ultimately led to violent rebellion, and that there was a straight line from religious fanaticism to regicide. The largest single group of...
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    The Puritans were originally members of a group of English Protestants seeking "purity", further reforms or even separation from the established church...
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    Scripture" is in many ways Puritan. Fundamental to the rise of English Puritanism in the Elizabethan era was the influence of four highly influential reformers:...
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    Grand Remonstrance (category Charles I of England)
    Church of Rome, taking the side of the Puritan party in the English church in opposition to William Laud, whom Charles had appointed Archbishop of Canterbury...
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    Starkey 1949, pp. 26–28 Francis J. Bremer and Tom Webster, eds. Puritans and Puritanism in Europe and America: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO,...
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    Puritan Sabbatarianism or Reformed Sabbatarianism, often just Sabbatarianism, is observance of Sabbath in Christianity that is typically characterised...
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    Martin Marprelate (category Elizabethan Puritanism)
    required.) Collinson, Patrick (2013). Richard Bancroft and Elizabethan Anti-Puritanism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107023345. Retrieved...
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    Historical Journal of Massachusetts, 21(2): 1–22. Howard, L. (1986). Essays on puritans and puritanism. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. Jable...
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    ISBN 0-12-914650-1. Unitarian Universalism at Wikipedia's sister projects Definitions from Wiktionary Media from Commons Quotations from Wikiquote Texts from...
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    From 1649 to 1660, Puritans in the Commonwealth of England were allied to the state power held by the military regime, headed by Lord Protector Oliver...
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    membership required.) Bremer, Francis J.; Webster, Tom (2006). Puritans and Puritanism in Europe and America: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO....
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    from the Puritans at the Hampton Court Conference of 1604. King James I agreed to abolish them, but the reform was never enacted. Puritans responded...
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    The Puritan choir was a theory advanced by historian Sir John Neale of an influential movement of radical English Protestants in the Elizabethan Parliament...
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    English Reformation (category History of the Church of England)
    (2008), "The Growth of English Puritanism", in Coffey, John; Lim, Paul C. H. (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Puritanism, Cambridge Companions to Religion...
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    Half-Way Covenant (category New England Puritanism)
    historians as signaling the decline of New England Puritanism and the ideal of the church as a body of exclusively converted believers. For other historians...
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    Cambridge Platform (category Reformed confessions of faith)
    (2008), "The Puritan experiment in New England, 1630–1660", in Coffey, John; Lim, Paul C. H. (eds.), Cambridge Companion to Puritanism, Cambridge University...
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    Vestments controversy (category Elizabethan Puritanism)
    Tudor Puritanism: A Chapter in the History of Idealism. P. Smith. Primus, John Henry (1960). The Vestments Controversy: An Historical Study of the Earliest...
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    Millenary Petition (category Puritanism in England)
    The Millenary Petition was a list of requests given to James I by Puritans in 1603 when he was travelling to London in order to claim the English throne...
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    Elizabethan Religious Settlement (category History of the Church of England)
    years later Archbishop of Canterbury. His rise to power has been identified with a "conservative reaction" against Puritanism. It is more accurate to...
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    Witch trials in Maryland (category History of women in Maryland)
    century went on, Puritan immigration displaced the Catholics and turned Maryland overwhelmingly Protestant. From 1644 to the 1670s, a series of religious conflicts...
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    Troubles at Frankfurt (category History of the Church of England)
    (Digitized by Google) Christina Hallowell Garrett (1938) Marian Exiles: A Study in the Origins of Elizabethan Puritanism, Cambridge University Press...
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  • comes out against Puritanism and is simultaneously "purposely militant", deliberately frustrating the other extreme from Puritanism, where "the Arminianism...
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  • framers of the earlier anti-episcopal petition for being equally confused as to the distinctions between different traditions of Puritanism. Neither...
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    Providence Island Company (category New England Puritanism)
    English chartered company founded in 1629 by a group of Puritan investors including Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick in order to establish the Providence Island...
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